Meagher death prompts new phone app

A Melbourne sexual assault service is developing a mobile phone app to help women make anonymous reports of attacks.

The Centre Against Sexual Assault has developed the software in response to the death of Melbourne woman Jill Meagher and a number of women who said they had been harassed in the same area but had not reported it to police.

Spokeswoman Carolyn Worth says the app will use GPS technology to compile information about incidents in particular areas.

"A lot of people don't seem to want to make a phone call. The discussion we started having was about whether there was any way we could capture this information and pass it on. Not their personal details but pass on the information that perhaps this was not a safe area to be.

Ms Meagher died in September after a night out with ABC colleagues in Brunswick.